Email Confirmation
Explore how to add an email confirmation feature in a full-stack app by verifying users through tokens. Learn to create a confirmation page with loader and alert components using Tailwind CSS, improving client-side authentication and user feedback.
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An important step for any new user creating a new account is to verify their email through the confirmation link that they get in their mailbox.
Modify the backend
Initially, we redirect the user to the /verify/${confirmationToken} route to verify their account. Then, we modify the route to redirect the user to a front-end route so that we can display a nice message to indicate the status of confirmation. We change href=${process.env.API_URL}/verify/${confirmationToken} to href=http://localhost:4000/verify/${confirmationToken}.
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